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AIC
Youth Project Coordinator Ahmad Abu Haniya Released Today after Two Years in
Administrative Detention!
Ahmad Abu Haniya, the AIC
Youth Project Coordinator, will be released from administrative detention this
morning (Tuesday 14 May), after two years of imprisonment without trial or
charges.
Ahmad was detained at a
checkpoint on his way to work on 18 May 2005 and placed in administrative
detention, which is imprisonment without trial or charges. As with all of the
approximately 800 Palestinian administrative detainees currently being held by Israel, Ahmad
and his attorney were not even permitted to know the evidence against
him.
As Ahmad stated
before the military court, “They tell me that I am a danger to the security of
the region. Yet for years, I have worked with Israelis. I have Israeli friends.
I always emphasize the fact that on this land it is possible to live in peace. How
am I dangerous exactly?”
During his
time in prison, Ahmad was adopted as an appeal case by Amnesty International,
and supported by the American National Lawyers Guild.
The detention
of Ahmad and so many other Palestinians blatantly violates international law,
which permits administrative detention only as an exceptional and highly
regulated measure. Administrative detention violates the fundamental right to
liberty and due process, and is used by Israel
as a tool to oppress political activists in Palestine who struggle non-violently against
the Israeli occupation and for a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis.
The AIC collective and wider AIC
community is thrilled that Ahmad is finally being allowed to return to his
family, friends and work for a just peace between Palestinians and Israelis,
and continues to call on Israel
to immediately release all of the Palestinians currently being held in
administrative detention.
Further details
about Ahmad to follow.
Notes of solidarity and
congratulations for Ahmad may be sent to:
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